books by Hill & Wang

books by Hill & Wang

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Hill & Wang

After 9/11: America's War on Terror (2001- )

Sid Jacobson, Ernie Colon

Hill and Wang, 2008

Don't bother. Rent a Michael Moore "documentary" instead.
You should heed the warning written on the opening pages, "The authors were especially inspired by The New York Times,...Time, Newsweek, and the New Yorker". The Graphic adaptation of the 9/11 Report was far superior, but in that work, the authors were grounded by the ...

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Roland Barthes

Hill and Wang, 1982

shocked
I am somewhat stunned and dismayed by the negative reviews of this book. In fact, it has seem to elicit a sense of vitriol in some. It is a brilliant book. How does one state simply such a complicated phenomenon. One doesn't. Those who rated this book so poorly ...

Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street

William Poundstone

Hill and Wang, 2006

Book review
Good book. I enjoyed it. Especially good for those interested in the Kelly criterion and all the people along the way who wanted to maximise gambling profit or investment profit.

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences

John Allen Paulos

Hill and Wang, 2001

An Interesting Read
This was an interesting book that I would highly recommend to anyone NOT number-savvy. I had heard good things about it, and as someone who appreciates the importance of math, I thought it would be great to check out. It was written with the lay-person as its target ...

Mythologies

Roland Barthes

Hill and Wang, 1972

A must for old-school Marxists and modern rhetoricians
In Mythologies, Barthes offers a series of snapshots with titles such as "Plastic," "Striptease," "Toys," "The World of Wrestling," and "Operation Margarine." His aim is to reveal the ideological abuse hidden in these myths, which are manufactured to read as reality. ...

Night (Oprah's Book Club)

Elie Wiesel

Hill and Wang, 2006

Elie, a brave boy and a survivor
Night is a book that truly makes you think and feel. What happened to the Jewish people is devastatingly awful.My mom homeschools my siblings and they chose to listen to Night on audio tape. Everyone was enraptured in Elie's story wanting to know what happened to him. ...

Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up

John Allen Paulos

Hill and Wang, 2008

One more voice of reason
I thoroughly enjoyed the audio-book version of Irreligion. Paulos does a fine job dismantling religious arguments while keeping it light and funny. The narrator is thoroughly delightful in his presentation; it sounded as if he was having a lot of fun delivering the ...

The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, Day

Elie Wiesel

Hill and Wang, 2008

A Must Read
This is a must read - for everyone! A real, raw and riviting account of Ellie Wiesel's personal experience during the Holocaust. Starting when no one believed the pending danger of war... to the formation of ghettos and finally life in a concentration camp. His ...

The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation

Sid Jacobson, Ernie Colon

Hill and Wang, 2006

Telling History through graphic art, truely innovative!
At gunpoint you couldn't force me to read the 9/11 Report. What Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon have graphically done is truly innovative. Not only does this graphic depiction tell the story, it is historically factual. It sets out all the findings, history, ...

Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak

Kenneth S. Deffeyes

Hill and Wang, 2006

Excellent discussion of Hubbert and his technical exposition
Deffeyes has written an excellent book on M K Hubbert's 1969 published predictions for future world oil production.The most interesting chapter is chapter 3.It covers the basic logistics model that Hubbert showed fit the data like a glove fitting your hand.Deffeyes ...

American Transcendentalism: A History

Philip F. Gura

Hill and Wang, 2008

The philosophies that inspired Emerson, Thoreau, & all the rest
It's the question that you dread to be asked, if you're a follower of Emerson or Thoreau: "What the heck IS transcendentalism, anyway? Where did it come from?" You stutter and you stammer and you explain what the concept means to you, which is probably not what ...

The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail: A Play

Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee

Hill and Wang, 2001

An Enjoyable Night with Genius
Henry David Thoreau may be experiencing a sort of revival as of late. His treatise on civil disobidience is a hallmark of progressive action today. Upset that his government declared an unjust war, Thoreau refuses to pay taxes to show his digust, which lands him one ...

Changes in the Land, Revised Edition: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

William Cronon

Hill and Wang, 2003

A seminal work
William Cronon's book was a seminal effort in 1983 that established a new way of thinking about history. It has stood the test of time. The book describes the modes and manner of the ecological impacts that English settlers had on the New England landscape in the ...

For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War

Melvyn P. Leffler

Hill and Wang, 2008

Outstanding hstorical perspective
This was one of those books that "pulled it all together." I lived thorough these times, this is my history. However, Leffler was able to tell the story so it had meaning and clarity. He did a great job of showing both sides of the story.

Dawn

Elie Wiesel

Hill and Wang, 2006

Excellent thinking book & totally different from Night
First off, this is not Night 2. I naively expected that when publisher's try to frame them as part of a 'trilogy'. Night is absolutely and without bar one of the most fantastic books I have read in my life. This is not just another chapter of that. And it is not ...